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And love of power, is inconsistent with goodness; but quite consistent with the very opposite qualities--pride, cunning, cruelty.

And love of power, is inconsistent with goodness; but quite consistent with the very opposite qualities--pride, cunning, cruelty.

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Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

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But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

But love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.

Eleanor Farjeon
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.

Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.

Henry Wheeler Shaw
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honoré de Balzac

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo
Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa
Flowers are love's truest language.

Flowers are love's truest language.

Søren Kierkegaard
The sincerest love is the love of food.

The sincerest love is the love of food.

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Ivan Sergeevich
We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal
Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.

Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.

Mignon McLaughlin

Love has no better teacher than the occasion.

Miguel de Cervantes
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

Joyce Brothers
If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm
It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.

It is not only necessary to love, It is necessary to say so.

French Proverb
Variety is the spice of love.

Variety is the spice of love.

Helen Rowland
People need love. Life without tenderness and without love is just a mechanism for dry grinding and heartbreaking.

People need love. Life without tenderness and without love is just a mechanism for dry grinding and heartbreaking.

Victor Hugo
Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends.

Why is it that we don't always recognize the moment love begins, but we always recognize the moment it ends.

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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

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Love is not an alarm clock, you can not have it sound at a time that you think is convenient and appropriate. It can not be contained between people until you think it should be there.

Love is not an alarm clock, you can not have it sound at a time that you think is convenient and appropriate. It can not be contained between people until you think it should be there.

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